About CAMP IT Conferences Founder Julian Horwich
Julian Horwich founded CAMP IT Conferences, Inc in 1984. The
organization's goal is to provide assistance to corporate IT
executives, management and staff in making strategic and tactical information
technology business decisions. CAMP is in its 27th year producing
conferences, tradeshows, and seminars aimed at that goal.
Julian Horwich has been involved in information technology for 46
years. He initially was a systems engineer with RCA's computer
division, but much of his corporate career was in IT management and
staff positions at pharmaceutical and health care companies. A major
focus was computer technology for drug research applications.
Widely quoted in IT publications during the 1980s and 1990s,
InfoWorld said of him in their March 16, 1992 issue: "Julian
Horwich is literally a household name in the microcomputer
management community".
His academic background includes undergraduate study in electrical
and biomedical engineering at Northwestern University, graduate
study in computer science at the Illinois Institute of Technology,
and continuing education at Northwestern both in digital electronics
and musical theater.
His interest in producing events began as an undergraduate when he
convinced a professor to give a lecture on Northwestern's IBM 709
vacuum tube computer to the student chapter of the AIEE-IRE (now
IEEE). He also worked on event planning for a student religious
organization at Northwestern and the Chicago chapter of the
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Julian Horwich organized
the first international conference of the SAS Users Group
International (SUGI) in 1976, drawing statisticians and computer
professionals from seven countries.
In the 1970s and 1980s Julian Horwich was a member of several
organizations involved with promoting socially responsible
application of technology. He authored a handbook for the ACM's
Computer Ombudsman program, and was the first editor of the
organization's newsletter. Julian was also a member for a dozen
years of the Northbrook Illinois Rotary Club, including a term as
the editor of their weekly newsletter.
His experience supporting business users with personal computing
began in the 1960s using early timesharing terminals. In the 1970s
and early 1980s, he spoke widely on the future of personal
computing, e-mail, and application development. He has been a guest
speaker at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management
and Lake Forest College, as well as many computer industry
conferences. His most recent talk was at the Chicago Palm
Programmer's Group ( CPPG ) on "Programming Palm OS Beaming". He has
authored several articles on pharmaceutical research computing,
personal computing, and e-mail, and compiled the book
"Pharmasources: A Directory of Software for Pharmaceutical
Applications".
Julian Horwich has programmed computer software for mainframes,
minicomputers, microcomputers, PDAs and cellphones. His first
business software project was a payroll system written in Assembly
language on the RCA 301 mainframe computer in 1965. He later wrote a
number of scientific applications for pharmaceutical research. His
most recent software development include several commercial personal
productivity software packages for handheld devices on the Palm OS
and Symbian OS platforms, using the C and Visual Basic programming
languages. Other programming languages he has used for application
development include Microsoft Access, JavaScript, FORTRAN, COBOL,
SNOBOL4, RPG. He recently implemented two web-stores for CAMP
Conferences' attendee and sponsor registration using the Shopsite
e-commerce software.
Julian, and his wife Evey, have two married sons and four
grandchildren. They live in Highland Park, Illinois, a suburb of
Chicago.
You can read more about Julian in Infoworld Magazine
here.
About CAMP IT Conferences
President Dan Horwich
In 2001, Dan Horwich took over as President and Executive
Director of CAMP IT Conferences. Prior to joining CAMP IT, Dan
held sales and sales management responsibilities at U.S. Robotics,
3Com, Mercantec, Spring Tide Networks and Lucent Technologies.
Dan graduated from University of Wisconsin-Madison with a BBA in
Marketing. Dan, and his wife, Jaimie, have two children and
live in Chicago, Illinois.
To view Dan's background and/or invite him to connect via LinkedIn, click below:
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